George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.
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No foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland.
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Liza Minelli said she can't sing well enough those 'special songs' of her late mother, Judy Garland, so she doesn't sing them at all. The award-winning entertainer said she'd 'rather present a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of Mama.'
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Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
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You cannot come here because you are not white.
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And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.
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This is a good day for the world's children. Children who today have no right to their own childhood, to education, to personal inviolability, have with these two representatives, these prize winners, got a voice both for the right to education - particularly for girls - and against unfair and exploitative child labor.
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That's my house and that's my car. That's my dog in my backyard. There's the window to the room. Where she lays her pretty headI planted that tree out by the fence. Not long after we moved in. That's my kids and that's my wife. Who's that man, runnin' my life?
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As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth.
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If someone is nice enough to come up to you and tell you how much they enjoy your work, and all they want in return is to take a photograph and for you to chat for five minutes, then I am delighted to do that.
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Cameras intrigued me.
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
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If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.
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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.
